Live from Apple's iPhone OS 3.0 preview event — 9:30AM We're currently at the doors, and we probably don't have to tell you that people are champing at the bit to get inside. We'll be knocking down old ladies and tripping unsuspecting humans soon enough, so stay tuned!

iPhone finally gets copy and paste! — No surprises here: Apple just announced that iPhone OS 3.0 will support copy and paste. A double-tap auto-selects the text you want with movable “grab points,” and a pop-up edit bar display buttons for cut, copy, and paste. Finally!

App Store: 25,000 apps, 800 million downloads — At its iPhone 3.0 software preview event in Cupertino, California, Apple gave out some pretty huge statistics for the iPhone platform so far. The two big ones: There are now over 25,000 apps in the App Store, and those apps have been downloaded over 800 million times.

MMS finally comes to Apple's iPhone 3G via OS 3.0 — Apple's done a decent job of implementing features that we've all been clamoring for into its forthcoming OS 3.0, and aside from copy and paste, there's probably no one single feature add bigger than this.

First iPhone 3.0 Apps Show Off New Functionality — To demonstrate the piles of new features and APIs included in iPhone OS 3.0, Apple brought along a few developers to show off their new wares. Here's what they've got so far. — First off, we've got another version of the Sims.

HTC to Launch ‘at Least’ Three Google Phones This Year — High Tech Computer (HTC) will ship “at least” three smartphones this year that use Google's Android software, HTC's CEO said Tuesday. — HTC, already the largest maker of smartphones that use the Windows Mobile OS …

CD sales drop, digital downloads on the rise — The number of Internet users paying for digital music increased by just over 8 million in 2008 to 36 million Internet users, and purchases of online digital music downloads increased by 29 percent since last year, accounting for 33 percent …

BlackBerry Gemini 8325 live picture — Sorry it's not the greatest picture in the world, but at least we can put a face to the specs and info. We dropped word of the BlackBerry Gemini a while back, and it looks to be cross between an 8300 and an 8900. Ugh, the madness never stops.

Computer Science Programs Make a Comeback in Enrollment — For the first time in six years, enrollment in computer science programs in the United States increased last year, according to an annual report that tracks trends in the academic discipline. — The revival is significant …

Discovery To Amazon: Hands Off Our Kindle! — Here's an odd one I didn't see coming: Discovery Communications (DSICA), the cable network best known for bringing you fare like “Shark Week”, says that Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle e-book reader violates one of its patents.

'I'm a PC' Marketing Pays Off for Microsoft, OEMs — [Editor's Note: Please read the companion post at Apple Watch. Together, the two posts offer full analysis of February Windows PC and Mac sales data and six charts (three per post).] — That's my conclusion after reviewing February U …

Why Won't AT&T Admit to Its Wireless Network Problems? — Last summer, when Apple introduced its 3G iPhone device, I brought up the issue of AT&T not being ready for the data usage brought on by the data-centric touchscreen phone. Company officials of course denied having such problems, assuring me that they were ready.

Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day — The Australian communications regulator says it will fine people who hyperlink to sites on its blacklist, which has been further expanded to include several pages on the anonymous whistleblower site Wikileaks.

PBwiki goes mobile on iPhone, BlackBerry — PBwiki on Tuesday announced the mobile optimization of its hosted wiki service for its Professional and Professional Plus Edition subscription clients. — PBwiki, which hosts, among other wiki services, Twitter's API docs, FedEx's marketing extranet …

Live Folders Bring the Real-Time Web to Android — An upcoming feature for Android smartphones called “Live Folders” will deliver real-time web updates to the phone's homescreen. Recently, this feature was revealed in a video of “Cupcake,” a development branch of Google's mobile OS …

Webware Radar: Alltop launches personalized pages — RSS repository, Alltop, announced that it has launched a new feature called MyAlltop, which allows users to create a custom page where they can add the feeds they care about on their personal page. The widgets can be viewed on that single page and shared with others.